2016 Scottish Parliament election
How will the Greens' inclusion in the TV debates affect the other parties?
Although inclusive leaders' debates are undoubtedly the fairest outcome, I can't help feeling that the broadcasters have copped out somewhat.…
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2016 Scottish Parliament election
The Green party member who wants people to vote tactically in a non-tactical sort of way
I was more than a little dismayed to see a link on Facebook to a blogpost by Green party member Morag Hannah, which can be roughly summarised as foll…
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2016 Scottish Parliament election
Inspirational Ipsos-Mori poll finds majority of Scottish voters still support independence
After our little sneak peek at the unfiltered Ipsos-Mori numbers earlier, here are the official headline results filtered by certainty to vote - and…
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2016 Scottish Parliament election
Vote "tactical", get Tory
It would be interesting to know whether it's now the editorial policy of Bella Caledonia to promote the bogus idea that "tactical voting on …
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2016 Scottish Parliament election
Burning questions for tomorrow - and a few tentative answers
Will the SNP remain the largest single party? Yes. Will Nicola Sturgeon remain First Minister? Yes. Will Labour suffer a net loss of seats? Highly li…
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2016 Scottish Parliament election
SNP hold 36% lead in talebearing TNS poll
The monthly TNS poll is now out, and I'm beginning to think Kezia Dugdale should just go the whole hog and change her party's name to "L…
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2016 Scottish Parliament election
Name That Pundit
I'm sure we're all agreed that it's been far too long since I offended the sensibilities of Commentor/NaebD with an "internet drama …
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2016 Scottish Parliament election
Spoiler alert : There are no spoilers. We don't know the election result until the votes are counted.
There's yet another "tactical voting on the list" (sic) article out today, this time from Fraser Stewart at Common Space . This is bec…
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2016 Scottish Parliament election
In one sense, a pretty good result - and in another sense, an absolutely ideal result
Just a quick note to let you know that I have a new article at the International Business Times , about how the SNP's narrow failure to secure an…
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2016 Scottish Parliament election
Why "tactical voting on the regional list" does not work, and is likely to backfire
On the last-but-one thread, the hoary old topic of "tactical voting on the regional list" came up again. I'm almost sick to death of d…
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2016 Scottish Parliament election
The SNP manifesto shouldn't just "not rule out" a referendum - it should make a conditional commitment
You may have seen earlier this evening that within two minutes of the Sunday Herald tweeting that they had a story about the SNP manifesto omitting …
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2016 Scottish Parliament election
Tectonic TNS poll puts SNP on historic high of 60% in the Holyrood constituency vote
Today brings word of our first full-scale Scottish poll since the UK general election last month. It's from TNS, with their unique face-to-face …
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2016 Scottish Parliament election
Doomsday dawns for distraught Dugdale as splendidly sadistic Survation survey extinguishes all hope for Scottish Labour
The latest poll in Survation's monthly series for Cleggy and the Vow-Meisters is now out, and it shows Labour slumping to joint all-time lows for…
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2016 Scottish Parliament election
Kalamity Kez in crisis after unsparing YouGov poll confirms Scottish Labour's existence is now pointless
Today's new YouGov poll will come as something of a relief for the SNP, because the fieldwork is bang-up-to-date (it concluded yesterday), and th…
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2016 Scottish Parliament election
New podcast
Just a quick note to let you know that myself and Michael Gray are the guests in this week's edition of the Newsnet podcast, hosted as always by…
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2016 Scottish Parliament election
Why "tactical voting on the regional list" does not work, and is likely to backfire
On the last-but-one thread, the hoary old topic of "tactical voting on the regional list" came up again. I'm almost sick to death of d…
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2016 Scottish Parliament election
Dugdale's daft dreams turn to dust as brutal Survation poll condemns Scottish Labour to certain destruction
With less than a month to go until polling day, a new Survation poll has just been released placing Labour an eye-watering THIRTY-ONE points behind t…
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2016 Scottish Parliament election
NEW FILM : How the voting system for the Scottish Parliament works, and why "tactical voting" is such a big risk
A couple of weeks ago, I jetted off (if you can jet off by train) to a top-secret mystery town somewhere between Dunblane and Bannockburn (it's g…
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2016 Scottish Parliament election
The tactical voting lobby were proved comprehensively wrong on almost every point on Thursday night - and yet they're still in denial
Apologies for returning to the topic of the "tactical voting on the list" fiasco yet again, but I am absolutely flabbergasted at the rubbis…
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